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NITED STATES PATENT Qrrion.

JACOB GULDEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Yr

MUSTARD-FILLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 260,385, dated July 4,1882.

Application filed April 1, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB GULDEN, of New York,in the county and State ofNew York, have invented a new and Improved Mustard- Filler, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved inustard-filleryFig. 2, atop view of the bottleholder. Fig.3 is avertical cross-section of themustard-filler; Fig. 4, a horizontal section of the same on the plane ofthe line a c, Fig 3; and Fig. 5 is a detail top view of the upperguide-bar for the valve-rods.

The object of this invention is to.produce a machine for filling anumber of mustard-bottles at the same time, so as to avoid the necessityof filling each bottle separately, and overcome the difficultyheretofore experienced of keeping mustard perfectly clean and pure inthe vessel from which it has to be filled into the bottle.

Heretofore mustard was filled into bottles from cans having long spouts,the attendant lifting the can, holding it, and pouring the contents intoone 'bottle, and then into another bottle, 86G. Meanwhile the spout andcan would become covered with mustard that had been exposed to the air,and would become clogged more or less, and the operation would proceedwith less speed and satisfaction. Unskilled attendants would frequentlycause the bottle to overflow, causing more labor in cleaning than wasinvolved in the mere act of filling. In my improved apparatus themustard is contained in a tank, which has a series of outlets at or nearthe bottom and a series of valves closing these outlets, and which isprovided with means for lifting all these valves, at the same timeallowing bottles standing under the respective outlets to be filledsimultaneously, the mechanism being such that if, when some of theseries of bottles are filled, one or more bottles should not be properlyfilled, the attendant can nevertheless allow the surplus needed to flowinto thebottles that are not entirely filled without causing theremaining bottles to overflow; and, moreover, the mechanism is of suchconstruction that, after a tank full of mustard has been emptied intobottles, it can be readily cleaned and all its parts taken out andwashed.

The invention consists in the novel arrange- (ModeL) ment andcombination of parts hereinafter more fully specified.

In the drawings, the letter A represents the tank which is to containthe mustard that is to be filled into bottles B B. The tank A issupported on a suitable framing, C, so as to be raised above the bed Dof the apparatus, which bed has rails a, on which slides the rack E,that holds the bottles B.

The rack E is composed of a lower board, b, on which the bottles stand,and of an upper perforated board, at, by which the bottles are guidedand spaced, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3. Each rack may have one row ofsix (more or less) holes in the board d to receive six (more or less)bottles B, or it may have more than one such row, if desired, two rowsbeing shown in Fig.2.

The rack E is supported on the rails a, and can be moved on these railsso as to bring a row of bottles beneath the discharge-openings of thetank A. These discharge-openings are preferably downwardly-extendingfunnelshaped spouts e, one of which is clearly shown in Fig. 3, allarranged in a row corresponding with a row of holes in the board d ofthe rack E, so that when the rack is properly placed (to which end asuitable gage, marked f, is on the rack, and a corresponding gage, f onthe bed D) the bottles of one row are all respectively beneath therespective spouts c, as shown in Fig. 1. Each of these spouts e isclosed from above by a rubber plug, g, which plug is attached to thelower end of'a vertical rod, F, there being as many rods FFas there aredischarge-openings e in the tank. The rods F carry weights h at or neartheir upper ends, preferablythat is to say, above the mustard in thetank or they may be pressed down by means of springs, if desired; and Idesire it understood that springs are to be regarded as theequivalents'ot' the weights for holdingtbe rods F and the plugs g downto close the discharge-openings e.

The several rods F F are kept vertically within the tank A by beingguided in eyes i t, that extend into the tank A, andby being furtherguided in a top board, G, which is placed over the tank A, as shown. Theeyes it for each rod F are (or it there be but one eyet'for each rod Fthat eye is) attached to a verticallymovable rod, H, which is dovetailedinto the inner face of the tank A, as clearly shown in Fig. 4. The upperguide-board, G, which rests on top of the tank A, is made in two parts,as shown in Fig. 5, the two parts being, when they are on the tank,contiguous, except where they form openings for the rods F. This bar Gis held down onto the top of the tank by upward] y-extendin g posts j,which are fastened to the tank A by screws 1, and which are connected attheir upper ends by a cross-board, an, that is fastened to the posts jby screws a. By unfastening the screws 12. and Zthe parts on andj may betaken off the tank, and the bar G, which, as already stated, is made intwo longitudinal halves, can then be taken asunder, allowing the rods Fto be lifted out of the tank A, and with them the dovetailshaped slidesH, that carry the eyes i. This construction of parts has here beenparticularly referred to because it has the advantage of allowing themechanism to be taken outof the tank for cleaning purposes, which isessential in all apparatus for manipulating mustard, which is apt tooxidize under the influence of air. Such apparatus, therefore, must befrequently cleaned, and should not be arranged in properly-constructedmachinery otherwise than so that it can easily be taken and washed whenneeded.

The upper end of each rodF is connected by a cord or chain, 0, thatpasses over suitable rollers, 11, which are hung on rods q, that havetheir hearings in the posts j, and the outer ends of these cords orchains 0 are connected to the upper ends of vertical slides I, that movein one or moreperforated brackets,r and s, which are attached to theouter side of the tank, as shown. The several slides I below the lowerbracket, 8, pass also loosely through a bar, J, and have pins orshoulders t below said bar J. The several parts are so spaced that whenthe weights h of the rods F cause the plugs g to close the apertures cthe bar J will be raised by the pins or shoulders t nearly against thelower side of the lower bracket, 8. The bar J is connected by a stem,11, which is guided in a vertical eye, to, with a handle, w; or the barJ may have the handle as directly attached to or formed on it.

Instead of dovetailing the slides E into the inner side of the tank,they may be held from lateral displacement by rabbets or otherwise.

The pins t should project from the slides I sufficiently far to carrythem beyond the breadth of the bracket 8, so that they may constitutehandles by which the slides I can be separately moved. These projectingpins Fig.3 to the position shown by dotted lines in the same figure,thereby lifting the plugs g, opening the apertures c, and allowing themustard to fiow from the tank into the row of bottles. When the bottlesin the row are all full the handle a; is let go, whereupon the weightsIt will immediately carry the plugs g down and close the apertures e. Afresh row of bottles is then moved beneath these apertures c and theoperation just described repeated. The bottles to be filled are in fullsight of the attendant, and if he should find that some of the bottlesin a row have been properly filled, but for some reason one or more ofthe bottles in said row are not properly filled, he will let the handle00 go, and then with his finger pull on the pin t of the slide 1, thatcontrols the plug g, which is over the bottle that has not been properlyfilled, and then allow the mustard to flow into that particular bottlewithout permitting the remaining bottles to overflow. In Fig. 1 is shownthe hand of the operator pulling one of the slides I in the manner lastmentioned. When the bottles which are on one of the racks E have allbeen filled with mustard, another rack having such bot tles is slid onthe rails to and brought into position, and the machine then operated,as already stated.

It is evident that, instead of being used to fill mustard into bottles,the apparatus can be used for analogous purposes--that is to say, forfilling liquid or semi-liquid matter into other receptacles.

I claim- 1. 1n apparatus for filling bottles or other receptacles from atank, A, the combination of said tank, having arow of apertures, c, withplugs g, weighted rods F, cord 0, outer slides, I, bar J, having handle00, and with a support for the vessels to be filled, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination of the tank A, having apertures 6, with the weightedrods F, cord 0, slides I, one or more brackets, 1- s, handles t, bar J,and handle 00, all arranged to allow the separate and also simultaneouslifting of the plugs g, substantially as specified.

3. The tank A, having removable bars II, which carry guide-eyes i, incombination with the weighted rods F, having plugs g, and with mechanismfor removing said rods, substantially as described.

4. The mustard-filling apparatus having detachable superstructure j m,combined with the separable guide-bar G, removable guidebars H t, andwith mechanism for moving the rods F, that are guided in the bar G, andeyes i, substantially as described.

JACOB GULDEN.

Witnesses:

WILLY G. E. SCHULTZ, WILLIAM H. 0. SMITH.

